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Still Life Museum

Stage 1: Prato-Artimino

We invite you to live a one-of-a-kind experience at the Still Life Museum, located on the second floor of the Medici Villa in Poggio a Caiano. This extraordinary museum houses a collection of 200 paintings from Florentine galleries that belonged to the Medici. The pictorial works you will find there are dominated by flowers, represented in all their varieties and arranged in fanciful ways, succulent fruits, lively animals, but also precious or everyday objects, all brought together with mastery and harmony to create intense and refined compositions , some of which are full of symbolic meaning.

The exhibition itinerary develops through 16 rooms, where you can admire works by Italian, Flemish and Dutch artists, ranging from the end of the sixteenth century to the mid-eighteenth century. Among all the artists, the Florentine Bartolomeo Bimbi stands out, with fifty-nine works on display, including 12 remarkable paintings created for the Medici villa della Topaia. These paintings portray, with extraordinary detail and scientific precision, the numerous varieties of fruit grown between the end of the seventeenth century and the beginning of the eighteenth century in the countryside and gardens of Tuscany ruled by the Medici, which today have almost completely disappeared. Bimbi also painted exotic, monstrous or exceptional animals, with the gaze of an artist-scientist.

The museum also houses important works by artists such as Willem Van Aelst, Felice Boselli, Jan Brueghel, Margherita Caffi, Giovanni Agostino Cassana, Filippo Napoletano, Giovanna Garzoni, Jan Davidsz De Heem, Monsù Aurora, Bartolomeo Ligozzi, Otto Marseus, Antoine Monnoyer, Cristoforo Munari, Pietro Navarra, Mario de' Fiori, Giuseppe Recco, Andrea Scacciati, Giovanni Stanchi, Franz Werner Tamm and many others.

The Still Life Museum in the Medici Villa of Poggio a Caiano is a must-see for art and history lovers.

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